BRIAN FITTERMAN
Columbia,CT
Summary
With 35+ years of experience in the technology field, including 6 years in O365 and Azure AD collaboration platforms and 15 years in the Utility WAM space. Brings extensive knowledge and expertise to any organization. Excels in various infrastructure roles, specializing in Middleware, EAI Administration, and Architecture. Strong leadership, communication, and organizational skills enable successful implementation of enterprise applications and infrastructure topology. Proven track record in defining technical standards and procedures, as well as developing system technical, application, and business system architectures and strategies for software and hardware deployments. Proactive in assisting with defining the direction for future projects while collaborating with development staff and management.
Overview
35
35
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
IT Manager Work and Asset Management
Eversource Information Technology
08.2022 - Current
- Manage 50+ WAM applications across 6 operating companies in 3 states including Maximo, Cascade and Primavera
- Manage all budgeting aspects for the product center both for Capital and O&M
- Accountable for support, successful project delivery in WAM tower averaging between $5M-$40M per year
- Manage all the internal customer relationships and engagements for all application in tower including Planning/Scheduling, Mobile, WAM, and Supply Chain
- Aligning with business unit to deliver increased business value
- Leading Business Relationship Represent IT as a whole
- Empowered to drive innovation in Application development and maintenance
- Maintaining technology currency and ensuring security vulnerabilities are addressed
- Incident escalation notification and resolution
- Business value goal achievement while maintaining compliance to IT policies such as Audit/SOX
- AZ-900 certified
- Deployed MAS8 in Azure cloud for Eversource
- Maintain all Roadmaps, strategy, and vision for the WAM tower
- Manager of over 100 resources consisting of employees, on shore and off shore staff
IT Product Owner O365 & Azure AD
Eversource
02.2020 - 08.2022
- O365 Technology lead for Eversource for past 2+ years
- Azure AD Technology lead for Eversource for past 2+ years
- Managed Microsoft O365 & Azure AD EA licenses for Eversource
- Developed and managed Identity for Cloud applications for Eversource including MFA strategies
- Lead for SSO for SaaS and on Premise applications for Eversource
- Developed and maintained Governance for O365
- SME for the development of the modern desktop for Eversource
Business Solutions Architect WAM and Cloud
Eversource
04.2004 - 02.2020
- Lead on Collaboration and IAM for Eversource for past 3 years
- Technical lead on Corporate Mobile Strategy
- Technical Lead on Corporate Collaboration Strategy
- Lead Architect for the eGIS project for mobile GIS
- Actively seek ways to apply technology to business processes and projects that potentially are enabled using technology for the business
- Assessed near-term needs by utilizing structured interview / facilitation processes with the technical subject matter experts to establish business priorities, advise on options, risks, cost versus benefit, and impact on other business processes and system priorities
- Lead the EDSIP II – CMMS project
- GIS Support Architect
EAI Architect and Infrastructure Team Lead
Northeast Utilities
03.2002 - 04.2004
- Secondary major responsibilities during this time included EAI Architect and Infrastructure team lead for $20 million Work Management project
- Project included the integration of multiple new vendor software products running on a combination of platforms including webMethods, Oracle, WebSphere Application Server, zOS, and the desktop
- Infrastructure consisted of over 20 new servers to support six environments in constant flux
- Integration duties included the definition and design of some of the over 45 integration interfaces between these new systems as well as existing legacy systems via the use webMethods
EAI - WebMethods Administrator
Northeast Utilities
03.2001 - 03.2002
- Create and maintain all Northeast Utilities webMethods Infrastructure
- Worked with the entire EAI team along with a vendor team (accenture) to develop all the standards for both the infrastructure side of webMethods as well as all the development standards needed to implement this new technology
- These included everything from installation instructions/standards to webMethods package design and structure
- Took place in the pilot project where 5 interface points for existing systems were chosen to be the first integration projects utilizing webMethods for EAI purposes
MQSeries Administrator
Northeast Utilities
03.2001 - 03.2002
- Create and maintain all Northeast Utilities WebSphere MQSeries Infrastructure
- This included the definition of the naming, installation, object property, and connection standards
- Helped maintain all aspects of the infrastructure
- Worked side by side with developers to help design MQSeries based multi-platform application integration plans
- Develop, recommend, and implement all the MQSeries related technology strategies including choosing vendor packages for the monitoring and maintaining of the MQSeries infrastructure as well as any tools that developers would use to speed up the MQ related development cycle
Application System Developer UG IT / CRS (Customer Request System- WAM)
Northeast Utilities
05.1999 - 04.2001
- Worked on the CRS Fat Client as part of a fast-paced development team using VB6 COM
- Team Lead for the CRS Web Project
- The CRS Web project involved new technology for NU IT using advanced VB6 COM object oriented design
- Helped design & develop both the front end and back end to this N-tier system
- Worked with the entire Web Infrastructure team to help develop standards that would be used by all web developers at Northeast Utilities
- Team Lead for the CASCADE Work Management Project
- Duties included ordering all software and hardware, managing vendor, data and training
Application System Developer CL&M
Northeast Utilities
09.1996 - 01.1999
- Worked on several smaller VB based applications including CUSP – Customer Service Billing application
- Majority of time with Select Energy was working on the front end and data acquisition for the Central Station application
- The Central Station application was a Real-Time Power Quality measurement system using hardware designed and built by Allen Bradley and Rockwell Systems
- Offsite coordination with Allen Bradley engineers was critical in getting this system to implemented
Application System Developer Plant Work Management Software
Eversource
06.1990 - 08.1996
- Database programming in PL1 and Natural under CICS
- Databases used include DB2, SYBASE, Oracle and ADABAS
- Responsible for providing support to the Nuclear/Fossil Hydro Work Management System and Fossil/Hydro data system
- Involved implementing Generic Solutions for multi-user environments, batch programming, and working with the user environment to solve production problems and to discuss future improvements and enhancements in both the PC and Mainframe environment
- Developed 3-tier applications using the Entera Development Product on the UNIX (Sun Solaris) platform with a VB front end talking to both Midrange (SYBASE) and Mainframe (Adabase) DBMS’s
- Designed and created the PMMS (Plant work management system) and MIMS interface
- This interface provided a seamless integration of the existing legacy application to the new Stock and Procurement System
- Created and enhanced business applications and reports using workflow automation and other technology tools.
Education
Bachelor of Science - Computer Science and Engineering
University of Connecticut
Storrs, Connecticut05.1990
Skills
- Azure AD Implementation Expertise
- O365 System Management
- Collaborative Teamwork
- SharePoint Collaboration Tools
- WebMethods
- Mulesoft
- Oracle
- C/C
- SQL Server
- NET
Accomplishments
Served as solution architect for 15+ years implementing multiple projects including STORMS, Customer Facing request systems, and rolling out our first Azure Cloud with O365,
Certification
AZ-900
Timeline
IT Manager Work and Asset Management
Eversource Information Technology
08.2022 - Current
IT Product Owner O365 & Azure AD
Eversource
02.2020 - 08.2022
Business Solutions Architect WAM and Cloud
Eversource
04.2004 - 02.2020
EAI Architect and Infrastructure Team Lead
Northeast Utilities
03.2002 - 04.2004
EAI - WebMethods Administrator
Northeast Utilities
03.2001 - 03.2002
MQSeries Administrator
Northeast Utilities
03.2001 - 03.2002
Application System Developer UG IT / CRS (Customer Request System- WAM)
Northeast Utilities
05.1999 - 04.2001
Application System Developer CL&M
Northeast Utilities
09.1996 - 01.1999
Application System Developer Plant Work Management Software
Eversource
06.1990 - 08.1996
Bachelor of Science - Computer Science and Engineering
University of Connecticut
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